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Harry Reid will get his 60 votes, but he won't be getting closer to solving the $2.5 trillion cost problem facing American health care. This expensive $848 billion bill, filled with mandates, new taxes, and subsidies, represents a costly and cumbersome way to address the problem of the uninsured. Should it become law, we face the unpleasant prospect of having to reopen this difficult issue in a few short years to handle the unsustainable new costs we will be adding to an already overstretched system.

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